OCTA: Let's celebrate Christmas but be ready vs Omicron

Students of Pedro Cruz Elementary School in San Juan City attend their first day of the limited face-to-face classes on Monday, December 06, 2021

The STAR / Michael Varcas

MANILA, Philippines — Filipinos should not worry over the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 and instead celebrate the upcoming Christmas season carefully, a fellow of the OCTA Research said Monday morning.

“First, there is no need to panic. Let us celebrate Christmas. This is the best time in 20 months for the entire country,” Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, a molecular biologist and a fellow of OCTA Research, said in a televised briefing with President Rodrigo Duterte.

Austriaco, however, stressed the need for the public to be cautious and for the health system to be prepared.  

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